Health

Image copyright ETH Zurich Image caption The implant causes a mole to form when high levels of calcium are detected Scientists have created a skin implant they say could one day be used to help detect some of the most common cancers. It works by looking for elevated levels of calcium in the blood, which […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption There are about 3,600 more management staff in NHS trusts than in 2013 Hospitals in England have recruited managers at a higher rate than doctors and nurses, BBC analysis of official figures reveals. Since 2013, an additional 3,600 managers started at NHS trusts compared with 8,300 more doctors and […]

Image copyright Getty Images Being a patient is a “full-time job”, say researchers, because more people are likely to have multiple conditions. The Academy of Medical Sciences said doctors were seeing a clustering of different physical and mental health conditions in a single patient never previously seen together before. It means people can end up […]

Image copyright Getty Images Mental health diagnosis needs to be useful for patients and not simply a meaningless label, a report suggests. Research from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and University of East Anglia suggests patients would prefer to be told their diagnosis face-to-face rather than by other means. However, doctors said that a […]

Lynsey Kelly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and severe anxiety after the vehicle she was travelling in was involved in a fatal road accident seven years ago. At her lowest point she tried to take her own life. Now, thanks to the support of mental health professionals and family and friends, she has recovered and […]

Image copyright David Nasralla Image caption The normothermic perfusion machine pumps oxygenated blood and nutrients into livers outside the body Keeping donated livers “alive” with a machine prior to transplants boosts the chances of a successful operation, a landmark trial has found. Usually livers are kept in ice prior before the surgery, but many become […]

Image copyright PA Image caption Alfie’s mother Hannah Deacon met the prime minister last month when she handed over a petition The family of a six-year-old boy with epilepsy has applied to the government to be able to use cannabis oil. Alfie Dingley, from Warwickshire, has a very rare form of the illness that causes […]

Image caption The hospital trust said it has an improvement plan in place following the report Health inspectors had to intervene to ensure a patient with sepsis received treatment during a routine visit at a struggling hospital. Staff at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley failed to properly monitor the patient, who was not given antibiotics […]

Image copyright Getty Images Scotland’s top earning senior doctors are overwhelmingly men, BBC research has found. The figures showed just 15 out of 100 of the highest-paid consultants across Scotland’s health boards were women. The Freedom of Information data suggested just two of Scotland’s NHS boards had as many as three women among their top […]